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Photon-Photon Interactions via Rydberg Blockade

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  • 1. ROR icon California Institute of Technology
  • 2. ROR icon Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems
  • 3. ROR icon Harvard University

Abstract

We develop the theory of light propagation under the conditions of electromagnetically induced transparency in systems involving strongly interacting Rydberg states. Taking into account the quantum nature and the spatial propagation of light, we analyze interactions involving few-photon pulses. We show that this system can be used for the generation of nonclassical states of light including trains of single photons with an avoided volume between them, for implementing photon-photon gates, as well as for studying many-body phenomena with strongly correlated photons.

Additional Information

© 2011 American Physical Society. Received 18 March 2011; published 22 September 2011. We thank S. Hofferberth, M. Bajcsy, T. Peyronel, M. Hafezi, and N. Yao for discussions. This work was supported by NSF (Grants No. PHY-0803371 and No. PHY-05-51164), the Lee A. DuBridge and Packard Founations, DFG through the GRK 792, CUA, and DARPA.

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27226
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1103.3700 (URL)

Funding

NSF
PHY-0803371
NSF
PHY-05-51164
Lee A. DuBridge Foundation
Packard Foundation
DFG (Germany) GRK 792
CUA
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

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2011-10-14
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2021-11-09
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